About Me

About Me

A student of HELP University, I am currently in my second year of my Bachelor in Communication (Media Studies) programme.

I come from ...

Penang, the Pearl of Orient, Malaysia. Unofficially that is. My birth certificate states that I was born in Selangor. But my parents were Penangites. And I spend a considerable amount of time in Penang from my youth until even today. 

So I shall remain adamant, that I come from Penang.

My childhood was ...

truly delightful. As opposed to the children today, my parents whom both worked at that time made an effort to cook. Everyday. And we had dinner together as a family; my parents,  my sister and I. My parents gave us the necessities and rewarded us when we deserved it. As opposed to the children today who throw tantrums when they don't get the exact colour of iPad or iPhone that they demanded, talking back was something that wasn't tolerated. I played outside. And I had friends that I physically actually talked to, wrote to, and played with.

Interests, Dreams & Aspirations

I want to be a writer. That is all. I want to write. I want to write it all. Everything that happens in a moment. Every defining thing that has happened. Every possibility of what might come to happen. Everything in the world. 

I remember distinctively when this realization dawned upon me. It was an episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It was an episode where a disoriented old party crasher - played by everyone’s favourite veteran actor, Eli Wallach - wanders into the studio during the wrap party of Studio 60 (a live sketch comedy show) and grabs a photograph off the walls. 

He turns out to be a sketch writer on a classic show from the '50s, the height of which when TV sketch comedy was invented and all the craze. ''Of course, the network was not comfortable with political humour in those days,'' he said, reminiscing as Cal (the director of a Studio 60) tells him to tell Matt and Danny (the present executive producer and writer of Studio 60) everything he can remember.

Having dismounted a picture of himself and his forgotten co-workers off the wall, the elderly male goes on to describe those whom he remembers in the photograph. Watching and listening to Eli Wallach as he portrayed a man whom must have seen, heard, felt, experienced so much, and watching how star struck and engrossed Matt and Danny were to even be in the same room as this man, I realized that that is exactly why I write.

I want to be able to meet someone who has an abundance of stories to tell. I want to meet someone who has seen, heard, felt, experienced so much. In any way that is humanly possible. And to listen to them. And see as they saw, hear as they heard, feel as they felt. And I want to tell their story so that others can too.